> TODAY'S SUMMARY (16 articles)
Today's cybersecurity landscape highlights several significant threats and trends. Reddit plans to restrict access to logged-in users to combat content scraping, while blockchain firm Chainalysis reported a data breach involving customer data exposure due to advanced attack techniques. The emergence of the VOLTA infostealer malware, which employs AI to profile and prioritize victims for data theft, underscores the increasing sophistication of cyber threats. Additionally, critical vulnerabilities in Drupal Commerce and Ivanti Connect Secure are being actively exploited by attackers, raising alarms for online retailers and organizations using these platforms. Cloudflare reported a staggering rise in DDoS attacks, with 18.2 million incidents recorded in Q3, marking a 38% increase. Finally, users are warned about potential risks from malicious ChatGPT links that can execute code in their sessions, compromising private conversations.
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Joona Airamo, the CISO at Stonesoft, a Scandinavian IT security vendor, is predicting that the coming year will see a malware infection that targets the Apple operating system.
Virgin Media says that its research suggests that consumer gadgets topped the Christmas stocking gift list with millions shifting from the shelves before the VAT increase.
American Honda Motor Co. is warning around 2.2 million customers that an email database containing personal information was hacked, according to reports.
BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM) has offered lawful interception in its security architecture through cloud computing from Indian operators, according to the India Times.
A US security researcher has revealed a number of new security flaws in the Adobe PDF file format. The flaws, says Julia Wolf, a researcher with California's FireEye, have been around for some time, but have not been reported on.
Cybersecurity has become a “fundamental weakness” in Australia’s national security, and the threat is not well understood by political leaders and the public, according to a report by a leading Australian think tank.
The Geinimi trojan is attacking Android smartphones and stealing personal data from them, according to mobile security firm Lookout.
A row that has been brewing between the payment card 'establishment' and researchers with Cambridge University, who have previously claimed that the Chip & PIN security system seen in UK bank payment cards is flawed, has spilled out into the open.
Websense has posted a detailed analysis of the Phoenix Exploit kit, which is used by hackers to seed and infect users' PCs across the internet, and then monitor the results for data harvesting.
Computer technician Leon Walker faces five years in jail for hacking into his wife’s email account to confirm suspicions that she was having an affair with her ex-husband.
Mozilla, the developer of the Firefox browser, admitted that it accidentally posted sensitive information about the users of its addons.mozilla.org site to a public web server.
Because of a major increase in cyber attacks this year, the German government plans to set up a national cyber defense center in 2011.
British defense firm BAE Systems has agreed to acquire ETI A/S, a Danish cybersecurity firm, for approximately $212 million.
Incoming Speaker of the House, Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio), has tapped Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) to lead a cybersecurity initiative in the next Congress.
A number of VA facilities have violated the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) prohibition on using online tools to share patients’ information among facilities.
Although military-grade encrypted VOIP software for the iPhone has been around for while, the highly specialised software has been quite expensive, typically running into three figures. Now a Florida-based firm has released a 256-bit encrypt VOIP app for the iPhone costing just $4.99.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has approved Intel's $7.7bn acquisition of security software giant, McAfee.
IT security software vendor BitDefender has linked up with peer-to-peer data development company BitTorrent – which developed the file-sharing protocol of the same name – to offer the 80 million estimated users of the protocol an integrated malware detection service.
Inadvertent disclose of sensitive information by well-meaning workers will pose the greatest information security threat to organizations in the coming year, according to Frank Kenney, vice president of global strategy at Ipswitch.
Google has deleted all UK payload data collected by its Street View cars from unsecured British WiFi networks, the company has confirmed.